Trying to come back?

[Joseph Norton]

Hi Glen:


Do you use the desktop or server edition?

I also saw one version 9 and a version 8 for what it calls "large
deployments".  Which one do you think?

Thanks!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Trying to come back?


> Hi Joseph,
> I like Ubuntu at:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/
> On the computers I actually install it, I use the eloquence synth, A K A,
> via voice.
> But it works well as a live CD.
> To get it to speak when you boot up, after the disk spins up, do the
> following:
> Press enter for English
> Then press F5 for Accessibility features
> Then press the letter 3 for synthetic speech
> Then press enter twice, and it will come up talking.
> HTH.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joseph Norton" <joseph.norton at gmail.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:29 PM
> Subject: Trying to come back?
>
>
> Hi All:
>
> It's been a rough year or two!--not all of it, but, enough!
>
> To briefly update:
>
> I went out of circulation because of a house fire suffered in December
> 2007.
> I lost my computers, most of my software, my 3 hardware synths and most of
> everything else.
>
> On the good side, I escaped alive and physically intact.
>
> I have also gotten married and have a beautiful wife and a 4-year-old step
> daughter.  So, again, not all bad news.
>
> We are in new quarters and I have acquired a donated HP computer which
> seems
> to be capable of running Linux.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have access to a hardware synth.
>
> I saw on blindcooltech that there is a small distro called "GRML".  I have
> successfully downloaded and installed it on my HD.  It does work, but, I
> probably need some assistance to do more with it--if this is even
> possible.
>
> Can I install or build a more robust systtem starting with GRML?  In
> particular, can I get a better software synth than the robotic british one
> that ships with GRML?  Since it's based on Debian, can I install Debian
> packages over it?
>
> Or, are there other alternatives for installing Linux with only software
> synth available?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
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